Verizon IndyCar Series championship leader Will Power put up a lap of 223.348 miles per hour to lead the second and final practice session for the Pocono IndyCar 500 at Pocono Raceway.

Power said that he was trying to gauge how good his No. 12 Verizon Team Penske Chevrolet was in traffic during the second practice.

“We have no more practice sessions so I tried to run in as much traffic as I could,” he told IndyCar Radio. “It’s going to be interesting tomorrow because we haven’t had that much practice before a 500-mile race.

“We’ll have a good think about it overnight and see what we can do.”

Qualifying for tomorrow’s race is slated to take place this afternoon at 5 p.m. ET. It will air later at 7 p.m. ET on NBCSN and NBC Sports Live Extra for online and mobile devices.

Carlos Munoz of Andretti Autosport was second-fastest in this practice at 223.007 mph, followed by Practice 1 leader Tony Kanaan in P3 at 222.528 mph.

The first major hit of the weekend took place with half an hour to go in this session, as Jack Hawksworth lost control in Turn 1 and slammed into the SAFER Barrier.

The British rookie gingerly got out of his damaged No. 98 Bryan Herta Autosport Honda and needed help from a pair of Holmatro safety crew members to get into his ride to the infield care center.

But IndyCar Radio later reported that Hawksworth’s limp was simply due to banging his knee in the cockpit during the crash. Hawksworth was ultimately checked, cleared and released from the care center.

“After I got down to the apex, it just went super-loose and snapped on me, and I went into the wall,” Hawksworth said. “I don’t know what really happened. Obviously, I’m very sad for all the guys because we just wrecked the car.”

Hawksworth also added that despite his sore knee, he was confident that he could take part in qualifying later today should his team be able to repair the No. 98 in time.

It’s known as “Carburetor Day” – or in its simplest term, just “Carb Day.”

But the final day of on-track action Friday at Indianapolis Motor Speedway before Sunday’s 102nd Running of the Indianapolis 500 is so much more.

Especially on NBCSN, which will have wall-to-wall live coverage starting Friday morning.

Here’s how Friday’s schedule breaks down:

11 a.m. ET: Carb Day kicks off with the final practice for Sunday’s Indy 500. The session will last one hour in length.

12 p.m. ET: We’re going racing! Strap in for coverage of the Indy Lights’ Freedom 100 on the famous Brickyard.

1:30 p.m. ET: We’ll have coverage of the annual IndyCar Pit Stop Challenge. Which teams have the best – and most importantly, fastest and accurate – pit crews? Team Penske has won 10 of the last 12, including the last two years edging out Schmidt Peterson Motorsports each time. Who can potentially beat them this year?

1) 2016 Indy 500 winner Alexander Rossi will discuss how it used to upset him when people suggested he “backed into” his big win and how he didn’t really feel vindicated until he qualified on the front row for last year’s race.
2) Defending 500 winner Takuma Sato, the first Japanese driver to ever win at Indianapolis, discusses the impact of his big win personally and professionally, particularly back in his native land.
3) An essay by Robin Miller on Stefan Wilson giving up his ride last year to allow Fernando Alonso to race for Andretti Autosport.